Since I am an international student and have lived in the United States for three years, I have a little perspective on international work. In my opinion, the most challenging part of international work is the discomfort of different cultures. The first is the difference in living habits. This discomfort includes working time, lifestyle and food taste. In order to obtain high level of work results, the first thing to need is work comfort, if employees go to a cultural background that they can not adapt to, then the work will not be very good. Just like the discomfort caused by my first year in the United States, I could not concentrate on my study at the beginning, which led to my low GPA at the beginning. It took me a long time to get used to it. The second is that different cultures lead to other ways of thinking. Work abroad means that most of your partners will be people from diverse cultural backgrounds if your work style and ways of thinking and your partner are entirely different. Your partner can’t understand what you explain, and this will make you work very hard. What you need to do is to constantly understand and adapt to the content of your work and the cultural background of the country you are going to, and continuously ask questions and ask for help in the new working environment, so as to reduce the adaptation time, and finally to achieve good work results.
Clouse, M. A., & Watkins, M. D. (2014, August 1). Three keys to getting an overseas Assignment Right. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2009/10/three-keys-to-getting-an-overseas-assignment-right
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